The gnome l10n is done by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing community(http://smc.org.in) and works closely with gnome upstream. This community does not contribute to rosetta since it is duplication of effort and does not want the work to be BSD licensed[http://tweetphoto.com/813iww]. While every other distro use gnome upstream translations, ubuntu override it with very old and wrong rosetta translations. This make the Malayalam desktop of ubuntu very bad.

Looking at the attachments in this bug report, I noticed that "wrong translations in 9.10" was flagged as a patch. A patch contains changes to an Ubuntu package that will resolve a bug, since this was not one I've unchecked the patch flag for it. In the future keep in mind the definition of a patch. You can learn more about what qualifies as a patch at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Patches. Thanks!

A new team for Malyalam translations has been formed, now only decisons for it to work closely with the SMC, has to be made. Hence I have changed the bug-status to "In progress" and assigned it to myself.